House to vote to ban rules on new light bulbs

Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency standards for the bulbs.
House Republicans are pushing legislation that would overturn measures in a 2007 energy act requiring efficiency upgrades in the old-fashioned incandescent light ...

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Mr Barton is the man a who apologized to Tony Heyward when we demanded that he compensate those affected by his company’s oil spill in the Gulf. Poor Tony he only asked to “get his life back”

Well now Barton is complaining about those nasty light bulbs he may be forced to use. Actually the law does not ban the incandescent light bulb, it just requires a certain amount of efficiency. It is a standard that the old, 100 year+ technology hasn’t been able to achieve.